July Challenge - "The girl in the photo on her wall blinked."

Blake Beaulieu begins her university life adrift, haunted by memories she cannot fully grasp and shadows she cannot fully name. As she navigates mundane conversations and fleeting friendships, fragments of the past quietly unravel—a forgotten garden, a photograph on her wall, and a girl whose smile lingers beyond memory. Bound by nostalgia and unspoken grief, Blake finds herself caught between the desire to move forward and the ache of something precious lost. In a world where absence speaks louder than presence, she searches for meaning in the echoes of the past, learning that some loves never truly disappear—they simply bloom quietly within us, like wisteria through the cracks.

A woman sees a blinking girl in a still image...or does she?

A young girl named Sophia mourns the loss of her best friend, Jody, whose death has left her deeply shaken. Fifteen years later, the memory of Jody and the events of her funeral still haunt Sophia, as she clings to the photograph of happier times and the echo of her loss remains ever present in her life.

A young Wiccan picks up an old photo from an Estate Sale but gets far more than she bargained for.

a rhyming story made entirely from scratch, may contain grammatical errors due to creative uses of pronunciation.

A young woman escapes a life of abuse.

Renee Elliot is an employee at a small facility that houses and elderly lady. She listens to the woman's stories from her past life while taking care of her. When she notices the photograph blink, she thinks she's dreaming...is she?

The girl in the photo blinked. But Lizzy couldn't care. Couldn't bring herself to care. Not when it's happened a million times before.

She left the photo face-down.

But the girl inside never stopped smiling.